site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com On Mar 27, 2006, at 12:58 PM, Ochal Christophe wrote: Hi all, First & foremost, my apologies if this gets through multiple times, i tried reaching the mailinglist from another email account & failed miserably. -- Terry _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-kernel mailing list (Darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-kernel/site_archiver%40lists.a... Recently, one of my clients started experiancing kernel panics on all of his macs (2 powerbooks & 2 G5's). All machines run OSX 10.3.9 These are the kernel panic logs: Machine 1 (PowerBook): ********* You are supposed to file a bug for this sort of thing; this list is not for technical support questions.

From the looks of things, at least one of the machines (looks like the laptop) has bad memory. The other machine looks to be running a third party KEXT, which is leaking memory in one of the zones (my guess would be AntiVirus software, since in the past they tried to replace system call entry points with their own code drived from OpenDarwin; if we made a change in one of those routines in a point release, they inevitably lead to memory leaks/panics because of the stale code not *exactly* matching the update version). It also looks like someone has tuned some of the administrative limits on the number of open fd's up on one of the machines, far past the amount of memory available for such things (a couple of the panics are NULL pointer dererferences following an allocation failure in the M_FILE zoen, which would not occur unless the administrative limits on the machine had been explicitly changed). If you want help beyond that, you will need to file a bug, and likely need to be prepared for two machine debugging. Since you are running Panther, however, it's unlikely that the answer will be something other than "Upgrade to Tiger; most of this code was rewritten". This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com